Improvement in tea-pots



UNITED STATES PATENT EEICEa JOHN W. BREWS'IER, OFKENT, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN TEA-POTS.

Speciiicationvforming part of Letters Patent No. 173,713, dated February 2l, 1876; application tiled t July 31, 1875.`

` To all whom #may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. BREWSTER, of Kent, Portage county, Ohio, have invented Vcertain Improvements in Tea-Pots, of which thefollowing is a specification: i Y

The nature of my invention relates to a teapot containing a perforated vessel which holds the tea-leaves, and is attached to the inside of the tea-pot cover.

Figure l isa vertical section of the tea-pot. `The vessels is used to hold the tea. This vessel is perforated, or so constructed as to hold the tea, and at the same time allow the Water in the tea-pot to pass in and out of the vessel. It is cylindrical in form, which is preferable, though lit may be ot' any shape. Its upper end is open when detached from the tea-pot, but when in use it is attached to the inside or bottom of the teapot cover, which closes the open end of the vessel s. lt is held in posit-ion by the iange c on the inside of the cover a. 4

The tea is put in the perforated vessel s, which is then attached tothe bottom of the cover a. by means of' the flange c.

While the decoction is being made, and when it is poured from the spout, the vessels retains the tea.

rlhe vessel s may also be used in making coffee. v

I claim as my invention- In a tea-pot, the combination of an imperforate cover, provided withV flanges a 0With the perforated cylinder s, which rests on the bottom of the pot, while its top is detachably secured to the ange c of the cover, substalr tially as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN W. BREWSIER.

Witnesses BRADFORD HOWLAND, FRANK W. GONE. 

